The Art Market: New Gallery Entrants for the Second Edition of Tokyo Gendai
Melanie Gerlies, Financial Times
July 2024
New gallery entrants, including Pace, Alison Jacques and Kyoto’s Imura, were among the 69 exhibitors for the second edition of Tokyo Gendai in the Pacifico Yokohama convention centre (July 5-7). Reported sales came slowly, but there was optimism aplenty. “There is an energy to the contemporary art market in Tokyo and Japan in general which feels exciting,” said Jacques, who made “multiple sales” of work by the British painter Sophie Barber (£4,500-£20,000). Pace Gallery, which boosted the local mood with the soft opening of its new Tokyo space, reported fair sales of drawings by Robert Longo to local collectors ($90,000-$750,000).